Common use of Ownership of Information and Data Clause in Contracts

Ownership of Information and Data. (a) This contract shall no way affect or limit the Board’s rights to use, disclose or duplicate, for any purpose whatsoever, all information and data pertaining to the Department or Covered Individuals and generated by the claims administration and other services provided by Contractor under this Contract. (b) All files (paper or electronic) containing any Wisconsin claimant or employee information and all records created and maintained in the course of the work specified by this Contract are the sole and exclusive property of the Board. Contractor may maintain copies of such files during the term of this Contract as may be necessary or appropriate for its performance of this Contract. Moreover, Contractor may maintain copies of such files after the term of this Contract (i) for 120 days after termination, after which all such files shall be transferred to the Board or destroyed by Contractor, except for any files as to which a claim has been made, and (ii) for an unlimited period of time after termination for Contractor’s use for statistical purposes, if Contractor first deletes all information in the records from which the identity of a claimant or employee could be determined and certifies to the Board that all personal identifiers have been removed from the retained files.